The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-14
PRINCE BISMARCK.
Another Speech in the Reichstag-A Savag'
Attack on the Newspapers.


Attack the Newspapers.
BERLIN, Jan. Is The debate on the army
bill was resumed in the Reichstag to-day Prince
Bismarck again spoke He said Germany inter
vened in Bulgaria solely to prevent the execu
| ton of the conspirators who were implicated in
the PLOT against Prince Alexander so that the
maintenance of peace might be unimpeded In
support of this he read number of dispatches
and added:
II am thus compelled to protect Germany's
diplomatic and foreign agents by judicial evi
dence against incredible attacks by nenda-
| cious press. l could continue to read similar
documents proving that attacks have been made
| upon Germany's wider policy"
He quoted from articles in the Volks Zeitung
| and said:
"These declarations are unimportant in them
| selves if confined to the newspapers that make
| them, but must take into account that
| jority of this house socks to propagate such
| opinions Therefore, we cannot remain in
| active How vacillating is this majority. To-
| day 1t has already dropped Bulgaria. How,
| then shall suppose it will, after three years.
| retain the same opinion it now has on the mat
! ter which occupies US to-daya'
The Chancellor, as an instance Of the insta-
bility of press opinion, quoted from the
Vossische Zeitung and the Germania, and con-
| tinued:
''The papers even ask Us to use our soldiers
| to bar Russia's road to Constantinople. To do
| this would, perhaps, be in Englands interest.
| But we have difficult task to maintain peace
| and act permanently as moderator between two
powers, both our friends. Had / acted, in
| 1867 at the epoch of the Luxemburg
| question: not as mediator, but in the manner
in which I have been asked to do now,
/ should not have had to meet. one bloody war
| alone, but many In years TO come. if Russia
attacks Us, then we must and shall defend our
| selves to the last drop of blood As matters
stand, Russia has cause to attack US, nor have
we any to attack Russia. 1t is just as lit
tie inconceivable that the Poles would involve
us IN war with Russia. for it would be very
doubtful whether they would profit by
how the party should on the one
hand, seek to involve US, while on the other
hand, they would refuse curtail the means of
war The comparison which has been drawn
between our treaty with Italy, in 1866, and the
agreement of the King of Hanover with Napo-
leon does not hold good. According to the lat
ter, the Hanover legion was only to act in the
event OF the cession of the left bank of the
Rhine. You found analogous clause in our
treaty with Italy. There could never have been
question of the cass!on Of German territory. Nor
is it possible to show the existence of any un-
derstanding with Italy bearing the slightest re-
semblance to that between George V and Napo-
leon Ill"
DR.. Windthorst replying again pointed out
that proper Interpretation of the Constitution
was at variance with the Chancellor's ideas of
political and ecocomc policy
Prince Bismarck, rising abruptly, retorted:
| "In the Constitution it is plainly set forth that
the Emperor fixes the effective strength of the
army. If tie Reichstag should not grant
those means for the army which we
consider necessary, the King of Prussia
would stiI have the resource of appealing with
every confidence to the Prussian Diet, which
would, no doubt, grant the required means
We wish to preserve; you wish to encroach We
retain our old domain: you seek to acquire new
privileges and rights you do not now possess
Concerning Hanover. so constantly adverted to,
/ shall submit the documents demanded. We
shall then see how matters stand"
| Abiding next to the attacks on his economic
policy, Bismarck said the fact was that the
national prosperity advanced by it could not be
disposed of by denials. In concluding he said:
IF the government finds it cannot get on with
the present Reichstag, certainly it will not
abandon constitutional ground in dissolving this
body"
In referring to the Germania's statement that
France was willing to make an alliance with
Germany against Russia, Prince Bismarck said:
This shows how misinforned these politicians
are England might sooner quarrel with Russia
than we. We have such long Russian frontier,
while England, even in the event of war, would
have nothing serious to fear. We have no in
terest whatever in the conquest of Russian ter
ritory, and Of Polish provinces we have more
than are necessary"
General Won Schelendorff Minister of War,
followed, opposing the view of Herr Richter
that the bill had been introduced solely with the
object of lessening the number of officers and
men who are now on an indefinite leave Of alb
sence
motion to close the debate was agreed to.
and the House adjourned until l o'clock to-mor
row, when a division on the bill will be taken.
At meeting of the Progressist members of
the Reichstag, held yesterday evening, it was de
cided TO support the Center in voting for tren-
! nate term as the duration of the army bill
There IS not symptom of weakening the
part of the opposition or of its being inclined to
, | go beyond the trennate term. A small number
/ of the nobility. who are members of the Center
, will vote with the government, but their
! support is not likely to affect the fate of the
= bill :
. The Mulhausen Ex press says it has authority
for the that she troops in the garrisons
in Asace-Lorraine now number AZ, 600, incud
ing 16, ,00c at Metz, and that in the event of the
will be Immediately divided among the garri
sons of Wissembourg, Hagenau and Saarbruck.
The Express also says that barracks being
\ built at Metz which, when completed, will ac-
D commodate GO. 900 men.
Nothing has transpirej to weaken the certain
ty that the vote on the army bill will be adverse
to the government in which case the Reichstae
q will be immediately dissolved.
& The Chancellor intended to dissolve the Reich
stag yesterday, and actually had the writ signed
Q but he was dissuaded from dong SO by Emperor
William and Won B9tticher Minister OF the In
| terror.
How the Speeches Arc Received.
!, PARIS, Jan. Rehabilitation Of the full tex
S of Bsmarcks speeches in the Rechs.ag i
regarding his utterances The Chancello
!. is charged with brutality and endcav
}, oring to provoke war with France